Burner.



l. CATRON.

BURNER.

APPLlcMloN FILED 1AN.12,1918.

927%@ 1 9 Patented Aug. 20, l918.

JOHN CATRON, 0F ROSENBERG', TEXAS.

BURNER Speccation oi Letters Patent.

Patenten aug, eo, raie,

Application filed January 12, 1918. Serial No. 211,584.

To all whom t may concern.'

B it known that I, JOHN CATRON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rosenberg, in the county of Fort Bend and State of Texas, have invented new and useful Improvements inv Burners, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and relatively inexpensive burner adapted for use in connection with heating and cooking stoves and the like, and designed for the use of kerosene or similar oil as a fuel, the arrangement of the parts being such as to cause the vaporization of the oil so that it may be burned as a gas with economy as to the amount used in proportion to the results secured.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the course of the following description, it being understood that changes in form and proportion may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a burner constructed in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention,

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

The burner consists essentially7 0f a retort or converter 10 which, as illustrated may be of cylindrical or tubular form having the terminal caps 11 which are shown as threaded upon the extremities ofthe body portion of this element, a feed pipe 12 which 1s preferably disposed vertically, and into which discharges a feed tube 13 having a suitable controlling valve 14, and a burner tube 15 which, like the feed pipe, is in communication with the retort or converter, and is provided with an outlet nozzle 16 preferably of reduced diameter so as to produce a jet arranged to discharge against a deflector 17 which has the effect of distributing the ame and heat so as to affect the retort or converter substantially throughout its length.

The burner tube as shown, is curved in form to dispose its outlet on an upwardly inclined line for proper coperation with the deliector, and the depressed or looped portion thereof indicated at 18 is adapted to retain temporarily a portion of the liquid fuel when the burner is started, so that vaporization may occur promptly when fuel in the initial ignition pan 19 is lighted.

Tllis pan is provided with an absorbent pad 20 and to saturate the same preparatory to lighting the burner, the liquid fuel is caused to How from theretort or converter down through the burner pipe and out through the nozzle thereof, as will be obvious, and as ybefore noted that portion of the liquid fuel which remains in the goose-neck or depressed portion of the burner tube will be exposed directly to the heat of the flame in the pan and will come vaporized quickly to be followed obviously by the heating of the retort to such a degree as to vaporize the fuel therein.

Preferably, the burner pipe which enters the retort through an opening in the terminal cap 11 thereof, terminates near the plane of the top or uppermost point of the retort, so that the vapor from the oil may readily gain access thereto, and located at an intermediate point preferably on a horizontal diametrical plane of the retort, said burner pipe is provided with anl over-flow vent 21. Also the feed pipe which preferably enters the retort through an opening in the cap 11 at the opposite end of the retort terminates in the same horizontal diametrical plane with the vent 21, and is fitted with a check valve 22 which prevents pressure due to vaporization in the retort'from causing a return flow of liquid fuel in the feed pipe to the source of supply, which, though not shown, may be of any well known type, as for example: an elevated tank, or a `tank supplied with a suihcient atmospheric pressure to cause the fuel to feed through the tube and of communication with the retort.

The elements of the burner as described are compactly arranged, due largely as will be noted to the fact lthat the feed and burner pipes communicate therewith at opposite ends and serve not only as the means for introducing fuel to the retort and conveying vaporized fuel to the point of use, but also as supports to the retort with reference to the initial ignition pan, so that the device may be readily and conveniently arranged in the lire box of a stove of the ordinary construction.

lVhat is claimed is:

1. A burner of the type described having a tubular retort or converter provided with terminal caps, feed and burner pipes tted in openings in said caps and communicatpipe to the point ing with the interior of the retort, the v buine pipebeiiig eimiiieted in e "plane neel the uppei side of the retoii; md lim/ing; en over-ow vent dispos-ed in the horizontal diametiical plane of the ietort, and seid feed pipe 'terminating iii a common plane with said vent and fitted with a cliecli valve, 'an initial ignition pan, and 'a deeetoi ei'- ianged in lle path of discharge from the burner pipe, the burner pipe adjacent to iis diseliaige end being inclined upwardly from the plane of the seid pan.

2. A. buiner of *die character described iii- L-luding an initial ignition pan, zi tubular retort disposed above the pan, closure oups deiaoliably ooimeeed to the ends of lle reioit, e eed pi e connected tliiougli ilie and lim'iiig me uppei end deeoimloiy 'enelosuife eep and sew gagged in 'die edjaeen;

ietort3 means foi ing es a suppoi; for elle coiitolling the How eed pipe, a burner tube having its uppe end deaeliebly oomieoted to the other ter mined oep and being euived md seated iii the pam and having its outer poition upwai'dly inclined, said tube serving es e sup- ;poii, for the retoii, e nozzle deteeheloly mounted iii the ouer end o' the tube, and a deflectoi suspended fiom die iezoii, and disposed in the path of distribution fiom die nozzle izo dist-filante 'tlie neat with ifeeieiioe 'io 'ille ieoit.

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